Word: spoor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eric Shipton described in the London Times a hard, four-day climb to a great glacier near the high peak of Menlungtse. There, in the thin snow, he found the well-marked footprints of a strange, four-toed creature. Sen Tensing, the native guide, identified the tracks as the spoor of two "Yetis"-the same weird ogres first reported by an Everest expedition of 30 years...
...chippie-chasing roisterer on a steady diet of alcohol. What is worse, from the standpoint of Hucksters Fred MacMurray and Dorothy McGuire, Smoky has been missing for years. When their sponsor insists on meeting him, they hire a Hollywood agent (Jesse White) to follow Smoky's alcoholic spoor wherever it may lead, and bring him back alive...
...hunt was intensified. Foxhounds, bloodhounds, and whole packs of beagles, poodles, terriers and collies had failed to follow the leopard's spoor. The publicity-conscious Denver Post got into the act by flying a pack of Colorado cougar dogs to the scene. Wild at this poaching, the Daily Oklahoman immediately sent a special plane to Dryden, Texas, got a pack of hounds guaranteed to have chased pumas in old Mexico. As darkness fell on the third excited day, the leopard was still loose. But according to early information, none of the hunters had yet shot another...